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Alcools (English: Alcohols) is a collection of poems by the French author Guillaume Apollinaire. His first major collection was published in 1913.
The first poem in the collection, Zone (an epic poem of Paris), has been called "the great poem of early Modernism" by the scholar Martin Sorrell.
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Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish descent.
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